India Synopsis
“Truth be told”
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Audience Engagement
4,271 audience reviews — more than 100% of India films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 95th percentile among India films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Post. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From 20th Century Fox
Drama + History in India
52 India titles in our catalog blend the Drama and History genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Post itself).
The 2016–2018 India Window
The Post holds position #94 of 323 India films in the 2016–2018 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s India Landscape
2017 was the decade’s peak output year for India — 124 titles released, including The Post. Bars below show how the 2010s stacked up year by year (919 total).
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 56m runtime, production spent $431K per minute on screen and earned $1.5M per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 123 other India films in 2017.
The 1447th India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Post, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- usa · 5
- newspaper · 3
- washington dc · 3
- publisher · 2
- richard nixon · 1
- pentagon papers · 1
- government cover-up · 1
- 1970s · 19
- journalist · 17
- vietnam war · 11
- journalism · 8
- political thriller · 8
- based on true story · 98
- biography · 75
- politics · 39
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #514 of 1,983 India films indexed here (74th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.6 points above the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Drama productions specifically: #368 of 1,132 (top 33%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | India, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, TSG Entertainment, Participant |
| Runtime | 1h 56m |
| Release Date | December 22, 2017 |
| IMDb | tt6294822 |
| Official Site | www.foxmovies.com |